River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-17

ern railroad has raised the wages of the
sleeping car porters and prohibited them
from receiving tips.
Andrew Hopkins, of the town of
Black Creek Outagamie county, shot a
wild cat which he found asleep in a
straw stack near his house, after re
cent snow-storm.
The board of directors Of the Nation
al Driving club of Milwaukee have de-
cided to hold running meeting in
june on the National park course. last
ing four days.
Friday morning the dead body Of
Robert Ziegler, prisoner in the Mil
waukee County Jail. was found hang
ing in his cell. Zeigler had been ar
rested upon complaint of his wife, who
alleged that he had secured possession
of $500, her own money, and by misre-
presentations induced her to give a
chattel mortgage on her household
goods, after which he abandoned her
Upon being placed in jail Zeigler said
to the jailer that he would rather die
than go to the House of Correction. He
was 80 years old. and leaves wife and
child
The second largest mining transac-
ton scored since the Gogebic iron reg
ion was opened up has just been made
through the sale of the Iron King and
Bonnie Mines by John f. Burton to a
New York syndicate. The Iron King
was sold on basis of 5000, 900 and the
Bonnie on basis of $500, 900, Mr..
Burton retaining liberal interest in
each.
The funeral of MIR. and Mrs. Elisha
Richards, octogenarians and pioneer
citizens of Southern Wisconsin, who
died two days before at Potosi within a
few hours of each other, occurred on
the lth. at Elk Grove and was attended
by large concourse of people from vari-
Gus parts of the State.
Last week Hayden's oratorio Gre
alton" was given in Beloit by the James
vile and Rockford Choral Unions, near
ly 800 strong. The concert occurred
in the first Con- egational Church I'M
der the direction Of rof. Terrens Ii
was brilliant success.
A meeting of the executive committee
of the Central Wisconsin Veteran Sol
diers' association has been called at
Ripon. April /, to make arrangements
for the second annual encampment OF
the association, at Ripon next June.
In Richland county. near Excelsior,
James Taylor, farmer, while engaged
in digging well, found in a bed OF
gravel about twenty feet below the
surface double handful of the most
beautiful amethyst stones, and one
very large and valuable ruby.
During the past two calendar year
Gov. Rusk has pardoned thirty-two
persons from the state prison and Mil
waukee house of correction, at the ex-
piration of their terms of sentence, for
the purpose of restoring rights OF
citizenship to them and also to twenty
seven convicts in the state prison prior
to the expiration of their terms. The
most prominent among the latter were:
George Wilson, Milwaukee, life prisoner
for murder; Margaret M. Cooley and
Rebecca Merritt, sisters of Baraboo,
three years for perjury; Paul Barthol,
Winnebago County, ter years for as
sault with intent to rob; John Patzen
Milwaukee, horse thief, five years
Alonzo AUSTIN, juneau County, rape,
ten years; Michael Sagstetter, Winnie
bago County, murder, for life; Ole
Thomas, Chippewa County, murder
seven years; Peter Hayes, Do, glai
County, rape, five years; Frank Shea
Dunn County, murder, fourteen years
Pardous were issued to five prisoners in
the Milwaukee House of Correction
before the expiration of the sentence
the names being John F. Pudham
Charles Toennisen, Robert Kloetzer
Harry Chamberlain and Andrew Dolan